Real Estate - Homes

In Western and coastal states such as Montana, Utah, and California, where housing affordability is most stretched, median investor purchase prices reach up to 35% above the typical local sales price. At the same time, investors in more affordable states like Michigan, Maryland, and Virginia are targeting lower-priced homes, some in excess of 50% below typical sales prices.

Home Health Care

Home care providers are no longer staying within the confines of what is often considered traditional non-clinical personal care. Instead, providers are rolling out more complex care and setting up their operations to ensure they can deliver these services.

Restaurants

There hasn't been much positive news in recent weeks, especially if you consider yourself a consumer. October layoffs reached a 22-year high. Calls to the national hotline for food assistance have quadrupled so far this month. Here is a look at how some public restaurant companies and different segments are making sense of – and responding to – such an environment.